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Mitzi, a young mouse, resents the presence of her new sister Fifi until she comes to like having her around.

Apple Bramblewood, a rare Attractor, has struggled with her unusual ability to attract bizarre creatures from magical realms since turning twelve. Her unique talent involves navigating the chaotic demands of these odd beings, often leading to clumsy and unconventional solutions. The story explores her challenges and adventures as she learns to embrace her peculiar gifts in a world filled with enchantment and unpredictability.

McTeague (1899) tells the story of charlatan dentist McTeague and his wife Trina, and their spiralling descent into moral corruption. Norris is often considered to be the `American Zola', and this passionate tale of greed, degeneration, and death is one of the most purely naturalistic American novels of the nineteenth century. It also formed the basis for Erich von Stroheim's cult film, Greed (1923).

This set of standards-based reproducible activity pages is basic, not boring. In World History students process a rich assortment of key facts and concepts while enjoying challenging activities that describe discoveries and disputes, famous persons and places, and world-changing events and inventions. An assessment and a glossary are included.

In a whimsical dream world, four young teens embark on an adventurous journey alongside a cat, an elephant, and a mysterious blue boy they encounter one magical night. As their nightly escapades unfold, the dreamscape continuously transforms, offering new challenges and experiences that test their friendship and courage. This fantasy adventure explores themes of imagination and the power of dreams.

Graphic Organisers for Writing contains 60 simple, but powerful photocopiable sheets for use when teaching writing at Key Stage 2 (KS2). Not only do these tools help to break down learning into manageable chunks, they also help pupils to organise their thoughts in a very visual way and develop critical thinking skills.The graphic organisers in Graphic Organisers for Writing go beyond simple Venn diagrams and mind maps. The sheets will help pupils to plan and write both fiction and non-fiction texts. They will help pupils to recognise relationships between concepts and relate new ideas to previous knowledge and real life.Use the sheets in Graphic Organisers for Writing to help pupils informationConsider cause and effectWrite persuasivelyStructure a reportPlan a story settingIdentify and use key features of different genres in their writingUse a variety of sentencesAdd a twist to a storyWrite an alternate endingDevelop charactersGrab the reader's attentionThe sheets in Graphic Organisers for Writing can be used with pupils of all abilities and are a useful tool for assessing children's level of understanding.There are two other books in this Graphic Organisers for Reading and Graphic Organisers for Any Subject, both containing 60 ready-to-use sheets. All published by Brilliant Publications.

Research in many subject areas shows that using Graphic Organisers leads to improved levels of pupil performance on assessments and enhanced critical thinking skills. Such tools help pupils to think about the way they think and learn, and how to best display their ideas showing their level of understanding. Organising visually is a way to process, analyse and synthesise ideas creating a deeper understanding of events. Pupils who plan and write using Graphic Organisers generate more ideas, recall and analyse data more efficiently, recognise relationships between concepts and are able to relate new ideas to previous knowledge and real life. There are three Graphic Organisers in this Reading, Writing, and for Any Subject. All three graphic organisers contain 60 photocopiable pages for teachers to use with their pupils. Graphic Organisers for Reading contains resources relating to both fiction and non-fiction, literary elements, genre and reading in any content area. The organisers can be used to strengthen and reinforce important reading structures.

Plato set his dialogues in the fifth century BCE, when written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them in the fourth century, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato's dialogues as written texts to be read-and reread. At the center of these insights is the analogy in the dialogues between becoming literate and coming to know or understand something, and two different ways of learning to read. One approach treats literacy as a top-down affair, in which authoritative teachers lead students to true beliefs. Another, recommended by Socrates in the Republic, encourages trial and error and the formation of beliefs based on students' cognitive and sensory experiences. The first approach to learning to read aligns with philosophy as authoritative knowledge and politics as rule by philosopher-kings. Following the second approach, Poetic Justice argues that the Republic neither endorses nor enforces fixed hierarchies in knowledge and politics but offers instead an education in ethical and political self-governance, one that prompts citizens to challenge all claims to authority, including those of philosophy.